Gavin wrote:
sounds great (although i would have starved and don't like walking). couldn't parse the "engadez" thread..

I replied:
I think those four guys hooting and hollering in the remote valley were just trying to corral their cattle to some other far pasture, as the udder-kicking farmers were doing closer to town. Remember that this "wilderness" is in reality grazing-land.
I thought you would eat steak & chips?

I replied:
I could not translate it either. It was either cow-shooing nonsense words or I heard it wrong.

Nic wrote:
Just finished this one. Excellent book.
He writes in a dispassionate way - something to do with English as a second language me thinks - and this gives it tremendous power.
It works as a piece of fiction, great characterisation i.e. you really feel strongly about the various players, but also as an insight (shocking) into the recent history of Afganistan.